CJ in Pidgin Japanese?

[Ross Clark]

I learned (a little) Japanese before I learned (a little) CJ, so maybe
that's why I assumed that (if it wasn't just an amusing coincidence) it
was the other way around. "Hayaku" is regular Japanese, formed from the
adjective base haya- (quick, rapid) with the adverbial suffix -ku.  So
not likely from CJ. On the other hand, assuming we have a solid
Chinookan etymology for CJ hyak, it's probably not from Japanese.

Ross Clark

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Subject: CJ in Pidgin Japanese?

I realize you can't connect everything with everything else.

And Ranald MacDonald probably has nothing to do with this.

But I was just reading Goodman's 1967 article on post-World War 2
Hamamatsu English-Japanese Pidgin.  

He mentions a word "hayaku" used as "hurry up".  

I had to do a double-take.

You often find words from other contact languages in any given pidgin;
Goodman gives examples of them in this paper.  

People using a pidgin presumably make use of their previous experience,
if any, of contact situations.  

"Hayaku" couldn't have come from CJ, right?!

--Dave R

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